Domitius Marsus

Domitius Marsus was a Latin poet, friend of Virgil and Tibullus, and contemporary of Horace.

Quotes

• Si quos Orbilius ferula scuticaque cecidit.
  • Whomever Orbilius thrashed with rod or with whiplash of leather.
  • Quoted by Suetonius, On Grammarians, 9. On the harsh schoolmaster Lucius Orbilius Pupillus, whom Horace (Epistles, ii) likewise labels a plagosus ('flogger'). Translated by J. C. Rolfe, LCL 38 (1914)

• Te quoque Vergilio comitem non aequa, Tibulle,
    Mors iuvenem campos misit ad Elysios,
  ne foret aut elegis mollis qui fleret amores
    aut caneret forti regia bella pede.
  • Thee too, Tibullus, ere thy time hath Death's unfeeling hand
    Despatched to fare by Vergil's side to dim Elysium's land,
    That none should be to plain of love in elegy's soft lay
    Or in heroic numbers sweep with princes to the fray.
  • On the Death, in the same year, of Virgil and Tibullus. Published with the corpus of Tibullus's poetry. Translated by J. B. Postgate, LCL 6 (1913)

About

• Saepius in libro numeratur Persius uno
  Quam levis in tota Marsus Amazonide.
  • Oftener Persius wins credit in a single book than trivial Marsus in his whole Amazonid.
  • Martial, iv, 29, 7. On the epic poem Amazonis. Translated by Walter C. A. Ker, LCL 94 (1919)

External links

• "Domitius Marsus", ToposText (accessed 11 August 2024)